Word (phrase?) of the year? - "double down"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

No, that's "splitting". Doubling down means you double the initial bet
and receive one and only one additional card.

As OED says.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 02:54:35PM -0400, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> As usual, I'm behind the ball.  But I am wondering about the
> blackjack explanation.  My unquestionably uncertain recollection is
> that one can double down after two cards only when they are
> identical, and that doing so allows any number of additional cards to
> be dealt to each pile.  Having played blackjack for money only once,
> I am probably wrong.
>
> Joel
>
> At 9/18/2012 02:30 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> >On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> >>
> >> As Mitt Romney is said to have done in his hastily-arranged press
> >> conference in California yesterday evening.  And at other times, and
> >> as others have been accused of doing.
> >
> >See my latest Word Routes column for more:
> >
> >http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/why-is-everyone-doubling-down/
> >
> >--bgz
> >
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